Women Without Men by David George Kin

Chapters include The World, The Flesh, and the She- Devil; The Tough-Minded Blonde Has a Secret; Rise and Fall of a Tiny Novelist; She Was the Father of Her Child; Trapped in a Phantom Dream House; The Woman Who Became Two Men, and more.'
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The author calls this “True stories of lesbian life in Greenwich Village”. It represents a roundup of a dozen or so famous literary and artistic figures, presented as case histories. They are presented, picture after sordid picture, without a glimmer of understanding or real insight, though he sometimes shows smug sympathy for a few he claims to have reformed by something he calls “cultural therapy”. He baldly states in the preface; “I take my mental hygiene from Moses, rather than Freud, and have the Mosaic horror of homosexuality”. Despite this vicious slanting, the book is explicit, funny in places, and presumably verifiable—but certainly makes homosexuality look like a Fate Worse Than Death. The writing is straight from the tabloid newspapers. ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley